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- Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them…
- We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
- It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people]…
- Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
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